Testing the federated searching waters

Journal of Web Librarianship

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 47-66

  Ochoa, Marilyn ^a   Jesano, Rae ^b   Nemmers, John R ^a   Newsom, Carrie ^a   O’brien, Maryellen ^a   Victor, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Database searching; Electronic information resources; Federated searching; Information retrieval; Interface design; MetaLib; Metasearch; Methodology; Usability studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 69249179156     PISSN: 19322909     EISSN: 19322917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J502v01n03_04     Document Type: Article

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